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I have a pretty weak understanding of Egyptian history so anyone in the know please correct me but, in an older era of Egypt, wouldn't there be slaves everywhere? That may be one of the reasons to set it later in Egypt--i doubt thats a topic a big publisher is excited to touch on (even though I believe they already have with one of the AC4 spin offs)

I'm not the only person who scrubbed thru this whole thing looking for their own name right?

He's a bad Donald I'll agree to that--but let me offer a counter Donald--Donald Glover.

I like replaying some of the Pokemon games. The red/blue remake is really good--as is the Gold and Silver remake for DS. Other than that, I replay Link to the Past and WindWaker about every other year or so. SNES classic has me wanting to do another Mario World play through--probly been 5ish years since I played that.

I havent read every response in here but I'd say, in general, i replay alot of my most loved games from childhood. For me thats SNES/64 era. I started playing games around 89 so there was a bit of NES bleed over in there as well. I always assumed most people who replay games replay them for either nostalgia or speed-running/competitive training.

I work as a full-time graphic designer and while I can absolutely attest to just googling around for design inspiration--I still wonder why they didn't look juuust a little bit further into the current use of the KEK symbol. Deej straight up said in the post that they used KEK as an influence, just that they were only aware of the older WoW use of the term. Still just..the colors and the flag imagery are there and that is the new hate symbol element. So this totally looks like they flagged it but didn't know about the current use. At any rate, the answer seems to be "it wasn't 100 percent an accident but it wasn't 100 percent on purpose either." I don't know how to feel about that.

@gkhan: He used to show up at (I believe) 2am on Friday morning and is gone by Sunday morning--so if everything is the same you basically got all of Friday and Saturday.

He was referring to the engram rewards (engrams are the glowy-glowy 12 sided dice things) you get from random drops and various vendors in the social space.

Engrams are random rewards and their power in D1 was determined by the players power when you turned them in. You would typically only get them randomly as they fell off an enemy you killed. So for example--in D1 you pick up a purple engram in a mission then you rush to the tower and put on all the highest number gear you have THEN you turn it in.

In D2 engrams decrypt at the power level the player is at the time they pick it up. SO to get back to your specific question--after the story is over, there are quests that have rewards in the form of guaranteed Legendary (purple) engrams. Because they technically "drop" at the time you get them from the vendor, it is best to wait until you've hit Power level 260+ to accept the reward from the vendor.

Those rewards can unlock at +/- 5 power to what your current level is--so if you pick up an engram reward at level 220 it will give you something anywhere from 215–225. So the best course of action is to run public events and strikes to get random drops that will get you to 260--THEN when you've hit that number, complete your milestone quests and accept the purple engrams from the vendors in the social space.

Yes thats the origin of the term but you cant just walk back the history of a hateful words and say "well it started innocent so it's still innocent." Seriously dawg--look at those photos above your post. If it was just the letters "kek" then sure, i hear you. But there's sooo much imagery in those gauntlets that is pulled from that flag. Im not saying that people in WoW chats typing "kek" in the same way they always did should be considered hateful--but this--this is pulling those specific images from that specific flag that very specifically is a symbol for the current white-supremacy movement.

@owack6: The really damning part though, is the use of the actual KEK logo, not just the evocation of "kek" or pepe. That logo exists only on the KEK flag and it serves as the substitute for the swastika. The whole flag is a pallet swap of the Nazi war flag; it replaces red with green, the swastika with the KEK and the iron crosses with the 4chan logo. The KEK and its colors are used specifically as subversive white supremacist rallying imagery. I'm not here saying "Bungie, the company, planned this" but someone one did. It may have been a freelance designer or maybe someone inside the company--regardless of the source it's hard to believe that wasn't intentional.